South Africa 34

Listen to South Africa 34, a 51-year-old man from Cape Town, South Africa. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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*Please note that this subject reads only a portion of Comma Gets a Cure.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 51

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/08/1966

PLACE OF BIRTH: Cape Town (Crawford), South Africa

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Cape Coloured

OCCUPATION: gym instructor

EDUCATION: tertiary education: national diploma

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject mentions that he stuttered as a child, which is why he was prepared to read only a shortened passage of the scripted speech. The disfluency he referred to was hardly noticeable at the time of the recording.

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RECORDED BY: Nadia Barnard

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/11/2017

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Cape Town, in the suburb of Crawford, and I lived there for about five years; then I moved to Athlone [another suburb of Cape Town]. Ah, my hobbies as a child was cycling. Ah, that’s the only thing I was good at in s- at school, but I, I l-loved cycling and hiking. Three children: I’m the middle child; a older sister and a younger brother. My father was a bus driver; my mother was a dressmaker. OK, family history: My mother came from George. We got a bit of mixed blood, um, German mixed with coloured. Ah, father’s side is British mixed with coloured, so mixed race. …

Well, woodwork, biology, and, um, especially geography. … I can’t say; I mean at school we did Latin, but I, I don’t think, um, Latin had any influence in my speaking. I think it’s just as you, we’re brought up. … I can speak Afrikaans, but English was home language. “Kwaai” is “nice,” but I mean that’s more of a slang, as friends, of course. I can’t think of anything else.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Nadia Barnard

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/11/2017

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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